"We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet."
Read MoreCharlie Haden
in Thoughts
Human Music
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Human Music is an album by American electronic music composer Jon Appleton and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry featuring performances recorded in 1969 and 1970 and first released on the Flying Dutchman label.
Read MoreThird Story Podcast
I was recently interviewed for Leo Sidran’s wonderful podcast, @thirdstorypod
episode: “The Ones That Got Away, 2022 Holiday Edition”
Mu First and Second Part - Don Cherry Sketch #31
“When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.”
Don Cherry
Sky Dive - Sketch #33
Freddie Hubbard
Harmolodics - Sketch #32
Harmolodics is where all ideas - all relationships and harmony - are equally in unison.
-OC
TRANE - Sketch #29
“If there’s something you don’t understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don’t go to school and sit down and say I know what you’re getting ready to teach me, you know? You sit there and you learn. You open your mind. you absorb. You’ve got to be quiet, you’ve got to be still to do this.” - John Coltrane
Read MoreOrnette Coleman - Sketch #30
"I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke."
-- Ornette Coleman, quoted in: Esquire (January 2010)
Ascension
“I would like to bring to people something like happiness.”
Read MoreMilestones
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“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”―Miles Davis
Read MoreSheets of Sound
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“I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.”
–John Coltrane
Read MoreSomething Else
It's easier to copy someone else than to find out how to avoid sounding like someone else.
–Ornette Coleman
Genius of Modern Music
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“A genius is the one most like himself.”
―Thelonious Monk
A Love Supreme
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During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.
– John Coltrane
Black Music Matters
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I decided to do a series of daily/weekly designs that would uplift and bring attention to the Black Lives Matter movement, and ultimately the Icons of Black American Music. The Black artists I have spent the majority of my life emulating have formed who I am as a musician, educator, artist and person. What initially started as an outlet to offer my voice to the cause, quickly became an ongoing visual project that I will use to continue to honor the unsung masters of Black American Music and draw attention to the continued pursuit of equality, justice and peace.
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